"Best"file system for SSD drives?[SOLVED:See link in thread]

Budoka · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2012 Posts: 777 Location: Tokyo, Japan

Yes. There is a reason I put "best" in quotes. LOL. But, I would seriously like the Gentoo/Linux community's input.

To date, all of my Gentoo installs have been on HDD. But now I have moved to a laptop that has an SSD, and to boot (no pun intended), it is an Optane box so it also has a secondary SSD to accommodate that. I was given some good info about how to use Optane in another thread but to begin with, I am trying to discern what is a good file system to use for an SSD. On my HDD I was using EXT4 but my Google-Fu keeps returning warnings about Journaling file systems on an SSD?

Also stumbled on this blog...

https://www.maketecheasier.com/best-linux-filesystem-for-ssd/

...which recommends Btrfs.

I like the fact that F2FS is designed specifically for SSD but honestly file systems are out of my wheelhouse.

Thoughts?

For what it is worth I am installing on what will be an AMD64/UEFI Secure Boot box which I would like to use as a Dual Boot Win10/Gentoo box. The disk size is 1TB SSD broken out into 300GB for Win and the rest for Gentoo. And as I mentioned there is a 27GB SSD dedicated to Optane. Looks like Intel implements it as a RAID.

In addition to file system recommendations is there anything specific to an SSD install vs an HDD install that I should watch out for?

Thoughts?

mike155 · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2021 11:16 pm Post subject:

We already have a thread about this, see: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1130286.html

Budoka · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2012 Posts: 777 Location: Tokyo, Japan

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20511

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Duplicate Threads.
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